Fast and Easy Ground Beef Recipes

Fast, Easy, and Inexpensive

With rising prices across America, we can cut expenses and the use of our valuable time by preparing inexpensive and fast meals for ourselves and our families.

All of the following recipes use ground beef, but they are just as good or better with ground turkey or a higher grade of beef, such as ground chuck or ground sirloin. Any stocks used in these revipes can be replaced with vegetable stock and vegetarians can substitute beans or eggplant (my favorite substitute) for the meat.

Low fat and low salt products can also be substituted in these recipes and they are still just as good. Please enjoy.

Add the rest of the oil to the skillet, add broccoli, onion, and garlic and stir-fry until tender-crisp.

Now pour in the soup, water, and soy.

Heat mixture to a boil and then replace meat into the skillet and heat through.

Mexicali Surprise

Ingredients

2 slices of whole grain bread, torn into small pieces

½ Cup milk

2 lb. ground chuck

2 whole eggs, beaten

1 small onion, chopped

3 cloves minced garlic

¼Cup chopped parsley

½ tsp. ground black pepper

50 pimento-stuffed Spanish olives

32 oz. ready-made picante sauce

Instructions

Use the bread to soak up the milk.

Mix the beef, eggs, onion, garlic, parsley, pepper, and soaked bread and shape into 1" diameter meatballs. Place 1 whole olive in the center of each meatball as you make them.

Place meatballs into a baking dish.

Bake the dish at 350 degrees F about 20-25 minutes.

Put meatballs in pot and add picante sauce, quickly heating through over medium heat; or heat the picante sauce in the microwave while the meatballs are baking and combine all the hot ingredients at the end and serve.